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A Sourcebook Volume 2: Adults 4/eThe fourth edition of this essential resource has dozens of new scales as well as updated information for existing instruments, expanding and cementing its utility for members of all the helping professions, including psychology, social work, psychiatry, counseling, nursing, and medicine. Each instrument is...

This book examines the nature of the extraordinary authority accorded in Judaism to the Sages of the first five centuries AD. These teachers occupy an unrivalled position in traditional Judaism, their statements serving as the basis for Halakhah, or Jewish law. Michael S. Berger makes a philosophical analysis of this notion of the Sages' authority....

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A well researched and readable study of the family in the Western world. A storehouse of fascinating information presented in such a way as to be of great interest to scholar and layperson alike. Gottlieb has distilled an immense body of research into an eminently readable and intriguing narrative....

This is the first authoritative study of the music and history of progressive rock, a genre praised for its virtuoso instrumental solos and gargantuan stage shows, but also criticized for its privileged, upper-middle class roots. By using an interdisciplinary approach that draws together cultural theory, musicology, and music criticism, Macan...